Escutcheon for coin slides



Nov. 19, 1963 M. A. HALL ESCUTCHEON FOR com SLIDES 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 1, 1960 INVENTOR.

MITCHELL A. HALL ATT Nov. 19, 1963 1 M. A. HALL ESCUTCHEON FOR com SLIDES 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed April 1, 1960 INVENTOR.

MITCHELL A. HALL BY ATTORNEY M. A. HALL ESCUTCHEON FOR COIN SLIDES Nov. 19, 1963 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed April 1, 1960 INVENTOR. MITCHELL A. HALL ATTORNEY United States Patent Ofi ice 3 ,111,213 Patented Nov. 19., 1963 3,111,213 ESCUTCHEON FGR COIN SLIDES Mitchell A. Hall, 445 Rossini-d Ave., Fort Thomas, Ky. Filed Apr. 1, 1960, Ser. No. 19,361 3 Claims. (Q1. 1941) The present invention relates to an escutcheon for the support of coin slides such as may be applied to the cabinets of coin controlled service machinery, including washers, dryers, air-conditioners, vending machines, and the like.

Coin slides are invariably and necessarly constructed to include a slide plate for coin reception and manual reciprocation over a range of movement such that the slide plate extends a substantial distance from the cabinet wall. By so extending from the cabinet, the slide plate is vulnerable to damage, and may in some instances constitute a hazard to persons moving in the vicinity thereof. The slide plate may catch onto articles of clothing and the like, and may injure persons coming into contact therewith by accident.

An object of the present invention is to minimize the hazards of coin slide extension from a supporting surface, by reducing the degree of extension without resort to structural changes in the coin slide.

Another object is to substantially minimize coin slide extension for the purposes above stated, without sacrificing convenience of operation or effective functioning of the coin slide.

A further object is to enhance the appearance and the operability of a coin slide intended normally for extension perpendicularly from a supporting surface.

The foregoing and other objects are attained by the means described herein and illustrated upon the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of the improved escutcheon in association with a coin slide, shown applied to a cabinet wall.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 2-2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a rear view in cross section, taken on line 33 of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the escutcheon, with the coin slide removed therefrom.

FIG. 5 is a rear elevational view of the same.

FIG. 6 is a plan view looking down on FIG. 4.

FIG. 7 is a cross-section taken on line 77 of FIG. 6.

Coin slides ordinarily comprise a slide plate 10 mounted upon an elongate housing 12 for reciprocation manually within the housing by means of a handle 14. Integral with or fixed transversely to the housing 12 is a mounting plate 16, this plate being located usually at a substantial distance from the exposed end 18 of the housing. Common practice has been to fix the mounting plate 16 upon the wall of a cabinet or similar support, with the housing end 18 and slide 10 extending horizontally therefrom.

In FIG. 2, the character 20 represents a target element to be struck and moved by the rear end of slide 10 whenever the slide is advanced by means of handle 14 upwardly through housing 12, for initiating a dispensing of goods or services by way of any suitable mechanism indicated diagrammatically at 22. The numeral 24 indicates a chute for coins released from the coin slide following acceptance by the slide.

In accordance with the present invention, the elongate coin slide housing 12 is supported upon the upright wall 26 of a cabinet or equivalent support, at an inclination such as to materially reduce the degree of extension of the housing and slide plate 10 forwardly of the plane of the wall. This results in the housing 12 meeting the wall 26 at an acute angle 28, which may be considerably less than 45 or 60 degrees, the angularity shown on FIG. 2, by

way of example, being 30 degrees more or less. The handle 14 under the conditions illustrated is seen to extend but slightly from wall 26, where it offers very little obstruction to the space forwardly of the wall. If the housing were mounted on wall 26 in accordance with common practice, mounting plate 16 would be secured against the wall in parallelism therewith, to dispose housing 12 and handle 14 horizontally from the Wall to an extent nearly three times greater than the projection indicated by FIG. 2. Such full extension of the housing and handle is objectionable for the reasons hereinbefore related.

In order that standard or known types of coin slides may be mounted close to wall 26 as explained, there is provided a special form of bracket or escutcheon, indicated generally at 30, having a base plate 32 adapted to be screwed, bolted or otherwise secured to a wall or support 26, as at 33. Openings for the purpose are indicated at 34.

At substantially the middle of base plate 32 is a projecting annulus or flange 36 adapted to enter a circular opening 38 in wall 26, to present a forward finished face 40 exteriorly of the wall. The flange 36 defines a recess 42 dished inwardly to provide an inclined slide housing support wall 44 which meets the plane of base plate 32 at an acute angle. At the upper end of support wall 44 is a slide receptive opening 46 through which the coin slide housing may be bodily inserted in a downward direction (FIG. 2) until mounting plate 16 of the slide housing rests upon and covers the opening 46. A rearwardly directed top wall 48 furnishes a shelf upon which the plate 16 may rest. The plate may be secured upon wall 43 by means of one or more screws or equivalent fasteners 50.

The upper edge 52 of the inclined slide housing support Wall 44 is preferably in the plane of shelf or top wall 48, so as to provide additional support for mounting plate 16, while at the same time precluding access to the working parts of the coin slide. The plane of top Wall 48 is disposed at right angles to the inclined slide housing support wall 44, and both are at complementary angles to the plane of the base plate 32.

It will be understood that when the coin slide housing is positioned and secured within the escutcheon, it is completely surrounded by the dished recess furnished by walls 44 and 48, so that tampering with the coin slide mechanism is effectively prevented. In FIG. 1 of the drawings, indicates the usual coin-receptive aperture of the slide plate 10, which delivers coins to chute 24 when the slide plate is fully advanced inwardly along the housing 12 to initiate 'a dispensing operation or a working cycle of the machine controlled by the coin slide.

It is to be understood that various modifications and changes in the structural details of the device may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1. The combination of a coin slide of a type embodying an elongate slide housing having an inner end carrying a mounting plate lying in a plane substantially perpendicular thereto, and a mounting escutcheon comprising a base plate for attachment to a vertical supporting cabinet wall, said base plate having a front side and a rear side, said base plate being formed for placement over an opening in the supporting cabinet wall, said base plate having a projecting flange upon said front side for insertion in said wall opening, said flange defining a recess in and extending beyond said rear side of the base plate,

said recess having a defining wall dished inwardly and providing an upwardly inclined coin slide housing supporting rear wall portion meeting the plane of said base plate at an acute angle and said defining wall also providing a top wall portion inclined downwardly toward the upper part of said rear wall portion, said top wall portion terminating at the lowermost part thereof short of the said upper part of said rear wall portion and thereby providing an opening snugly receiving the coin slide housing, said top wall portion having a substantially flat top surface upon which said coin slide mounting plate rests, and means securing the coin slide to the escutcheon with said coin slide housing projecting downwardly from said supporting rear wall portion.

2. The invention according to claim 1, wherein the said coin slide mounting plate overlies and closes the opening in which the coin slide housing is received and wherein the last stated means comprises a coupling element connecting the mounting plate with the said top Wall portion.

3. The combination of an elongate coin slide housing having a mounting plate and an escutcheon for supporting the slide housing at an acute angle with a vertical cabinet Wall upon which it is mounted, said escutcheon comprising a substantially vertical base plate having front and rear side faces with a flange on and projecting forwardly from said front side face for positioning in an opening in said cabinet wall when the plate is mounted upon the inner side of the cabinet Wall, said flange defining a recess in and extending beyond said rear side face of the base 4 plate for receiving said coin slide housing, the said recess having an upwardly inclined rear wall forming an acute angle with the plane of said plate, the top wall on said rear side of the plate being inclined downwardly and toward the upper end of the said rear wall, said top wall having a lower end spaced from the upper end of said rear wall and forming therewith an opening to snugly receive said coin slide housing, said elongate coin slide housing resting upon the top surface of the rear wall when extended References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 728,412 Reed May 19, 1903 844,248 Case et al Feb. 12, 1907 1,260,372 Grover et a1 Mar. 26, 1918 1,955,188 Johns Apr. 17, 1934 2,116,309 Gorton May 3, 1938 

1. THE COMBINATION OF A COIN SLIDE OF A TYPE EMBODYING AN ELONGATE SLIDE HOUSING HAVING AN INNER END CARRYING A MOUNTING PLATE LYING IN A PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR THERETO, AND A MOUNTING ESCUTCHEON COMPRISING A BASE PLATE FOR ATTACHMENT TO A VERTICAL SUPPORTING CABINET WALL, SAID BASE PLATE HAVING A FRONT SIDE AND A REAR SIDE, SAID BASE PLATE BEING FORMED FOR PLACEMENT OVER AN OPENING IN THE SUPPORTING CABINET WALL, SAID BASE PLATE HAVING A PROJECTING FLANGE UPON SAID FRONT SIDE FOR INSERTION IN SAID WALL OPENING, SAID FLANGE DEFINING A RECESS IN AND EXTENDING BEYOND SAID REAR SIDE OF THE BASE PLATE, SAID RECESS HAVING A DEFINING WALL DISHED INWARDLY AND PROVIDING AN UPWARDLY INCLINED COIN SLIDE HOUSING SUPPORTING REAR WALL PORTION MEETING THE PLANE OF SAID BASE PLATE AT AN ACUTE ANGLE AND SAID DEFINING WALL ALSO PROVIDING A TOP WALL PORTION INCLINED DOWNWARDLY TOWARD THE UPPER PART OF SAID REAR WALL PORTION, SAID TOP WALL PORTION TERMINATING AT THE LOWERMOST PART THEREOF SHORT OF THE SAID UPPER PART OF SAID REAR WALL PORTION AND THEREBY PROVIDING AN OPENING SNUGLY RECEIVING THE COIN SLIDE HOUSING, SAID TOP WALL PORTION HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT TOP SURFACE UPON WHICH SAID COIN SLIDE MOUNTING PLATE RESTS, AND MEANS SECURING THE COIN SLIDE TO THE ESCUTCHEON WITH SAID COIN SLIDE HOUSING PROJECTING DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID SUPPORTING REAR WALL PORTION. 